Nikki Haley

Nikki Haley (born Nimrata Randhawa) (1972–) is the former governor of South Carolina and former Ambassador to the United Nations under President Donald Trump. A member of the Republican Party, she was ushered into the governor's doublewide mansion in 2010 as a Tea Party darling to replace family values promoter Mark Sanford, and won re-election in 2014. (It has been a while since the South was blue.)

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Her parents are Indian Sikh immigrants.

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Possibly due to significant pressure from reasonable people across the United States, Haley called for the removal of the Confederate flag β€” more accurately, the Battle Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia β€” from the state's capitol grounds in Columbia. Haley called the flag a symbol of racism in the wake of the in June 2015 Emanuel A.M.E. Church massacre in Charleston where nine parishioners were killed by a white supremacist.[1] While the state legislature debated, North Carolina activist Bree Newsome climbed the pole where the flag was flying on the lawn in front of the South Carolina Statehouse and took it down.[2] On July 9th, 2015, a two-thirds majority of state legislators voted for the flag to be removed from the state house grounds permanently and placed on display in a museum.[3]

gollark: It seems like they just completely disregarded the benefits of asynchronous communication, and decided that they had to make it as much like normal in-person school as possible, even despite the detriment to... actually teaching things.
gollark: I got an email from them (not even to me directly, forwarded from my parents) and:- the removed week of the summer term is being added to the end- they seem to expect to reopen in a month or so?- half the lessons will apparently now involve "human interaction", implying video calls or something, which will be *really annoying*, instead of having them just set work- they're running a timetable?!- I'm expected to be up by 08:45⸘
gollark: (that's not the annoying bit, I'm still typing)
gollark: So my school is being very annoying. There's been a somewhat longer easter holiday, but that ends soon and I'm going back to (remote) school.
gollark: Even with root, I've found it really irritatingly hard to do some things with my phone.

References
  1. http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/22/politics/nikki-haley-confederate-flag-south-carolina-press-conference/index.html
  2. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/06/27/woman-takes-down-confederate-flag-in-front-of-south-carolina-statehouse
  3. http://www.wistv.com/story/29510342/live-coverage-gov-nikki-haley-signs-bill-to-remove-confederate-flag
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